SAA 19 002. “You Are my Deputy” (CTN 5 p. 240)[via saao/saa19]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) [The king's word to the] commander-in-[chief]: | |
o 22 | (2) My forts, my [...] (and) my horses [are well]. | |
o 33 | [x] ⸢x x x-ia⸣ ANŠE.KUR-MEŠ-ia | |
o 44 | (4) [Day and] night during my reign, you shall be my magnate (and) my deputy. You shall stand in my place; guarding you is for guarding me. | |
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | (7) [Don't be neg]ligent but keep watch for me. | |
o 88 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ ib UD-⸢mu ša⸣ [e-gír-tú] | |
o 99 | [an-ni-tú ta]-⸢mar*-ú⸣-[ni x x x x] | |
(traces of 5 lines) | ||
rest broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | parts of three wedges in the middle of three successive lines | |
rest uninscribed |
Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P393605/.